Involvements & associates
Current
- Author of PHALLACY: LIFE LESSONS FROM THE ANIMAL PENIS
- Author of THE TAILORED BRAIN (Basic Books): publishing December 14, 2021; galley available at NetGalley
- 2021-2022 MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow
- Member, National Association of Science Writers
- Member, Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ)
- Editor, Medscape
Priors
- Scientific editor, freelance
- Features writer, various, freelance
- News writer, various, freelance
- Curator, writer of Spotted, a roundup of autism news and media papers, for Spectrum
- Board member, National Association of Science Writers (two terms)
- Member of the organizing team for the Women in Science Writing Solutions Summit, held June 14-15, 2014, at MIT.
- Contributor at Forbes, The Science Consumer
- DoubleXScience (managing editor)
- Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (science editor)
- Academic researcher
- Professor/lecturer: The University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, University of California-Berkeley, Dominican University of California
- Scientific writing and editing
- EarthSky: A clear voice for science
- Kaplan: Online course development
- The Learning House: Online course development
